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Course 1 of a three course specialization called Fundamentals of Immunology. Each course in the specialization presents material that builds on the previous course's material.
This is the first leg of a three-part journey through the defenses your body uses to keep you healthy. In this part we hope to give you the vocabulary and concepts you need to interact with the medical community and to provide them in a context that makes them memorable.
Fundamentals of Immunology introduces students to the basic functions of the adaptive and innate immune systems. The early lectures survey cells, tissues and organs using metaphors, cartoons and models to improve understanding and retention. After describing the form, function, origin and varieties of antibodies, subsequent lectures provide details on the mechanism of the generation of variation. The course provides animations of gene rearrangement and class switching and descriptions of affinity maturation correlated with detailed physical models of antibody structure. The final lecture reviews these concepts in anatomical context. Testing employs multiple choice questions testing facts, concepts, and application of principles. Questions may refer to diagrams, drawing and photographs used in lecture and reproduced in the outline.
What You’ll Learn:
The difference between adaptive and innate immune systems, the characteristics of various pathogens that they protect you from and the overall strategies employed in this protection. The detailed structure of antibodies and related immunoglobulin receptors, the characteristics and function of the different antibody classes and the mechanism for producing both the recognition regions and stem regions. Finally, how these structures are coded for in the DNA and expressed in the B cells....

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Aug 06, 2019

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So far the lecturer has been very entertaining and interesting in her explanation of various concepts of immunology. I am excited to finish this course, which will be relevant to my future studies.

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Feb 25, 2019

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This was a great course. Immunology is my professional speciality and I still managed to learn new things. The lecturer is very knowledgeable and very engaging. All with all a great course.

The course has good depth and is well presented. If you plan to take this class for academic credit at your academic institution later, this online course should be very helpful. The handout materials need some work to be practical, but I learned a great amount of basic knowledge. If you already know anything about genetic sequencing, it would be helpful. It is the only part of the course I felt very uncomfortable with. I would recommend this course to anyone serious about learning the immune system from the foundation. It is not a course for the casual learner. You will have to repeat view some lectures and do some side internet searches to understand all that is needed to finish, but I think you will find it time well invested.

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교육 기관: Momchil N

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Feb 06, 2019

The best course ever and the material provided during the course to illustrate the knowledge is amazing

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교육 기관: Bo L

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Feb 18, 2019

Very good course for learning immunology!

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교육 기관: Emiel d J

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Feb 25, 2019

This was a great course. Immunology is my professional speciality and I still managed to learn new things. The lecturer is very knowledgeable and very engaging. All with all a great course.

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교육 기관: Jhone R d S C

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Mar 08, 2019

muito bom

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교육 기관: Fatma M E

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May 03, 2019

It was a great course with wonderful material and organizing very well

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교육 기관: Melanie W

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Apr 20, 2019

Professor Novotny provided relevant context that made a complex subject comprehensible for me. I really enjoyed her analogies. Her thinking questions in the tests required me to truly apply my knowledge to get them right. This could be the best course I have ever taken in my life. Thank you so much, Prof. Novotny!

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교육 기관: kristin v r

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Apr 05, 2019

Great Professor. Funny and explains material well. Gave me the real quirky science teacher experience that I loved in Undergrad.

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교육 기관: Vicencio D

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Apr 06, 2019

Excelente nivel, otorga una perspectiva biológica muy interesante.

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교육 기관: Pablo R F

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Jun 30, 2019

Fantastic

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교육 기관: Eduardo A J

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Jul 15, 2019

excelent!

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교육 기관: Isabella E A

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Aug 06, 2019

excellent lectures

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교육 기관: AARON L A R

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Aug 06, 2019

So far the lecturer has been very entertaining and interesting in her explanation of various concepts of immunology. I am excited to finish this course, which will be relevant to my future studies.

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교육 기관: NKOSINGIPHILE T

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Aug 11, 2019

Thanks very much for the course. It had a good information. I benefited a lot.

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교육 기관: Constantino C R F

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Aug 12, 2019

excellent

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교육 기관: Tatiana I

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Aug 21, 2019

The professor is phenomenal!

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교육 기관: maysam

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Aug 31, 2019

it was great! that's it!

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교육 기관: Liliana C P M

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Sep 08, 2019

Excelente formação.

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교육 기관: Mohammod K I

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Mar 10, 2019

The quiz are really hard specially at 5th and 6th week syllabus. However, this course dives deep into immunology.

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교육 기관: Mohamad A M

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Aug 12, 2019

An excellent course for medical students who are interested in Immubology

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교육 기관: Colleen O

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Apr 26, 2019

I'm only auditing, but considering a certificate at some point in the future. It won't be good for other schools as credit, but it might add to my academic portfolio. So far this class is informative, the information is entertaining to learn, a little bit more elementary than I would expect, but good for beginners.

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교육 기관: Akhil G

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Mar 13, 2019

this course only contains only theory and theory no practical animation which makes very easier to understand... so this course is not at all helpful for me... :(